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Geopolitics in 2025 feels like Dickensia’s paradox.
On the other hand, the fact of Hans Rosling is a good reason for us to make things around the world and why things are extraordinary. Access to education has been dramatically improved overall, along with unprecedented global growth and innovation, including women.
On the other hand, the order after World War II has been elucidated. Ian Bremar, the president of the Eurasian Group, calls it the world of G-ZERO. This causes an extraordinary level of geopolics if a single power and groups do not want to set global agendas and maintain international order. 。
In my 30 -year business, with management, the impact of geopolitics and its global businesses, such as tariffs, inflation, threats from rising interest rates, and increasing the potential of large -scale conflicts. I have never talked about conversations with executives.
How can leaders understand this unstable landscape? Reading is useful. These three books (historical non -fiction, biography, fiction based on the future) gain an understanding of the world and how it changes.
Principles for handling the change in world order by Radario
If you don’t understand the past, can you imagine what the future will happen? Bestsellers for dealing with the changing world order: Why the state succeeds or fails (Simon & Schuster, 2021), Raidario, an author and co -founder of hedge fund bridge assoyses Find a descent pattern in the past 500 years.
Dario explores how to combine economic, political and social cycles to change the world as time passes. Fix his discovery to a rich historical data, he first looked at the Netherlands and the British Empire, explained their rise through innovation, education, powerful governance, and subsequent decline, , Supported by internal dispute. His explanation of monetary policy and preparatory currency that helps form a global order is a source of growth tools and crisis.
The last third zero of the book focuses on the US -China relationship, which is the center of the current tense global order. This book strictly reminds you of the powerful leadership and diplomacy required to navigate this complex relationship in the next few years. Based on data and logic, Dario’s conclusions are sometimes dense, but they are still persuasive and provide a thoughtful way to understand and manage today’s global turbulence.
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
History is shaped not only by mega trends and systems, but also by individuals. As the world’s wealthy person, as a kind of “advisor” for President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has a great influence, loves and dislikes him.
A stunning legendary Walter Isakson also wrote about Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, etc. At ELON MUSK (Simon & Schuster, 2023), ISAACSON delves into the unexpected life of businessmen and is relatively humble in the mask, but he has been a very troubled childhood in South Africa as a CEO of Tesla and SPACEX. Following the current role of X, the chairman of X (previously Twitter). ISAACSON can draw a clear story and a portrait of a complex man with experience, and you can see how MUSK is thinking and why he behaves like him.
People will draw their own conclusions, but in basketball, it is worthwhile to understand the mask and the decision he made, just as a ball, not a ball. This principle applies to other influential people who form the global dynamics of our era. And I always like to include biography in my reading and my recommendation.
2034: The next World War of World War by James G. Stabridis, who retired from Elliott Ackerman
About 10 years ago, I first met Admiral Stabridis in Zurich. He has recently retired as NATO Supreme Allied Commander. At the end of his remarks on geopolitics and global security, the audience sought a Stavridis recommendation to reduce global dispute risks. His amazing answer was to read more fiction. Stavridis pointed out that reading would build empathy, and empathy would reduce the conflict between individuals, communities, and nations. Most of the world’s population is not an internationally mobile type, so the easiest and practical method of building understanding and empathy is based on reading.
In 2021, he published his own fiction work, 2034: The next novel of World War II (Penguin Book). STAVRIDIS and co -author, Elliot Ackerman, is a veteran and author of the decorated Marine Corps, the author nominated for the Awards nationwide, and is very realistic and too much from a historic view. It will take you to the future in the imagination you feel.
The conflict begins in the South China Sea and escalates to a series of ignorant actions and reactions that lead to unintended results for everyone.
This novel emphasizes that the struggle, miscalculation of power, and overdoing of technology can lead to catastrophic consequences, and it feels like a modern enactment of Thucydides Trap. The terms have been achieved by American political scholars Graham Graham T. Allison, but it refers to comments made more than 2400 years ago by Greek historian and military commander Tukidides in the history of the Peloponesos war. THUCYDIDES believed that when the PowerSparta began to decline, the path to war was set and threatened by rising Athens. The rise of No. 2 was mentioned when Allison created a term. Harvard tested Allison’s hypothesis and unfortunately found that about a quarter of the time war was the result.
For leaders, Stavridis books emphasize the importance of suppression, collaboration, and foresight.
Geopolitics is no longer only for politicians. This is an important aspect of a global business strategy. By expanding its viewpoints through these three book lenses (history, leadership, speculative future), the executives have better equipment to work on today’s interconnected world issues.
We pray for a fruitful reading in 2025!
